Gaspard de Coligny: Admiral of France |
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Admiral Admiral's Alvarotto Ambassador Amboise Andelot Anjou appeared Arch arms army arquebusiers arrived August Aumale battle battle of Dreux Beza Bourbon Brantôme brother Calais Calendar Calvin Cardinal of Lorraine Catherine Catholic cavalry Cecil Chantonnay Charles Chartres Châtillon Coligny's Condé and Coligny Constable Council d'Aubigné Damville Dauphin declared despatch doubt Dreux Duke of Guise Edict enemy England English fact favour Ferrara Ferrière followed force Fort Caroline France French gentlemen German Hampton Court hand Havre Henry Henry of Navarre Histoire honour horse Huguenot infantry Italian Jarnac King Laudonnière leaders letter Louis of Nassau March massacre Menéndez Modena Modena Francia Monluc Montmorency Moreover Mornay murder Navarre negotiations never Noue Odet Orleans Paris Parlement peace Philip political Poltrot Prince Prince of Condé Protestant Protestantism Queen Mother reiters religion religious retired Ribaut Rochefoucauld Rome royal Ruble Spain Spanish Strozzi Swiss Tavannes Throckmorton town treaty of Hampton Triumvirate troops Vatican Vidame wrote
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Page 104 - The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Page 337 - Frenchmen did use to drink of in the morning, and it assuaged their thirst so that they had no need to drink all the day after. And this maize was the greatest lack they had, because they had no labourers to sow the same, and therefore to them that should inhabit the land it were requisite to have labourers to till and sow the ground. For they having victuals of their...
Page 198 - WHEN Israel came out of Egypt, and the house of Jacob from among the strange people, 2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
Page 104 - it assuredly behoves that church of God in whose name I speak, to endure blows, and not to strike them ; but may it please you also to remember, that it is an anvil which has worn out many hammers.
Page 337 - Notwithstanding the great want that the Frenchmen had, the ground doth yeeld victuals sufficient, if they would have taken paines to get the same ; but they being souldiers, desired to live by the sweat of other mens browes : for while they had peace with the Floridians, they had fish sufficient, by weares which they made to catch the same : but when they grew to warres, the Floridians tooke away the same againe, and then would not the Frenchmen take the paines to make any more.
Page 302 - They have begun to spread among the populace the idea that the King has his authority from the people, and that the subject is not obliged to obey the Prince when he commands anything which is not to be found in the New Testament. And they are on the highroad to reduce that province to the condition of a democratic state like Switzerland...
Page 323 - ... a good and charitable man, deserving to be esteemed as much of us all as if he had saved all our lives.
Page 63 - I nether feir nor eschame to say is the maist perfyt schoole of Chryst that ever was in the erth since the dayis of the Apostillis.
Page 312 - In this bull the Pope ceded to Spain all islands and lands found and to be found, discovered and to be discovered, to the west and south by making and drawing a line from the Arctic or North Pole to the Antarctic, or South Pole, which line shall be distant an hundred leagues west and south of any of the islands which are commonly called the Azores or Cape de Verde.
Page 331 - says the devout Mendoza, after closing his inventory of the plunder, "the greatest profit of this victory is the triumph which our Lord has granted us, whereby His holy Gospel will be introduced into this country, a thing so needful for saving so many souls from perdition.